Sentences with phrase «iridescent feathers»

Those melanosomes could be compared to modern birds, whose iridescent feathers» melanosomes have the same shape.

«Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you'd only see black dust,» explained Chad Eliason, a postdoctoral researcher at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, in a press release.

Many male birds - of - paradise employ bright colors and iridescent feathers in their mating displays — but a few species also sport superblack plumage.

During the breeding season, male wild turkeys gobble, strut, and preen their iridescent feathers, all to attract the attention of eligible mates.

The same God that stitched the iridescent feathers onto the littlest hummingbird fashioned a pair of eyelashes for each human baby.

Not exact matches

I once timed how long it took me to paint just the iridescent spots and feathering on a Cormorant and it was nearly three hours.

I once timed how long it took me to paint just the finishing iridescent spots and feathering on a Cormorant and it was nearly three hours.

When the sun hits their feathers just right, they do have a certain iridescent attractiveness.

The canonical example of sexual selection, the male peacock (in this image, an Indian blue peacock) is renowned for its iridescent blue - green plumage, elaborate feather train, and iconic «eyes,» the colorful markings on its tail feathers.

THE dinosaur Microraptor looked more like a raven than a scaly reptile: a new fossil shows that its feathers were dark and iridescent.

Feathers may have evolved as much for display as for insulation before being adapted for flight — although the blind golden mole also has an iridescent coat, suggesting iridescence need...

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

But superblack feathers are the opposite of iridescent, says Dakota McCoy, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University and co-author of a recent study on the topic.

The striking breast feathers get their iridescent properties from tiny boomerang - shaped structures called barbules.

In this case the two parents are the snow - capped manakin, named for its bright snowy - white crown feathers, and the opal - crowned manakin, named for its brilliant iridescent crown feathers.

Note the red eye, iridescent neck feathers, red feet, and (in the male) peach - colored breast and blueish back.

Deep green and dense burgundy rooster feathers; a white tail feather from a dove; a sparrow feather, dust brown, dotted with dark blotches; and the one of which Pari was proudest, an iridescent green peacock feather with a beautiful large eye at the tip.

The company's line of wand toys, Neko Flies, have critters on the end that resemble and move like cat's real - life prey, with their dangly legs, iridescent wings, feathers and colors.

The shots capture aspects of the feathers that are almost alien: strands that look like shimmering tentacles, tapestries of fluffy thread that look almost like plantlife, and, of course, the incredible iridescent colors — vibrant down to the tip of a single strand.

In order to catch the attention of its female counterpart, the male Bird - of - Paradise flips its cape of black feathers into a large ruff that surrounds its head, while also fanning out an iridescent azure blue skirt of feathers from its breast.

For example, her 2010 work Slick (photos below) used iridescent blue magpie feathers, which took her years to collect, since there are only a few blue feathers on every magpie.